Spiced
#bb715b
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bb715b
RGB
187, 113, 91
OKLCh
62.4% 0.100 37.3°
CIELAB (D50)
55.6, 28.3, 25.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.7; on black, Lc -37.0. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 25.2 and 26.8 and 34.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.73:1 — large text only
Black text
5.63:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.63:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ac634e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bb715b
protanopia
#7c7c5c · ΔE00 25.2
deuteranopia
#8c8c58 · ΔE00 26.8
tritanopia
#9b9b00 · ΔE00 34.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSienna Sky at ΔE00 1.179: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sienna SkyΔE00 1.179 · #bc735a
- Crushed CinnamonΔE00 1.19 · #b7735e
- Before WinterΔE00 1.224 · #bd6f56
- Azalea PotΔE00 1.697 · #ba7462
- Caramel CandyΔE00 1.864 · #b3715d
- Caribbean CoralΔE00 1.981 · #c07761
- FirenzeΔE00 2.016 · #bc7256
- Weathered SaddleΔE00 2.04 · #b5745c
- Warm Terra CottaΔE00 2.243 · #c1775e
- Warm CiderΔE00 2.379 · #bf6a52
- Copper BeechΔE00 2.402 · #b1715a
- Himalayan SaltΔE00 2.507 · #c07765
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.